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4066_lytro_camera.jpgIt's not out yet, but coming soon is a camera that you can change the focus on after the picture is taken.  Cool! 

Here is the story, but when you get there, be sure to scroll down to change the focus on the example pictures.

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See what's coming up in Episode 904 with Sarah Vedeler and the Wonderful World of Embroidered Applique.

 

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This week's puzzle is an award-winning quilt from Sarah Vedeler.  It won an honorable mention in Paducah and 1st prize at Houston in the Computer Aided Machine Embroidery category.   The Houston show was the first show in which Sarah had entered a quilt. The cool thing is that you can make this quilt too!  GO! Be Dazzled utilizes AccuQuilt GO! dies and they can be found on the GO! Be Dazzled CD.  Click here to learn more.

To learn more about Sarah, watch Episode 904: The Wonderful World of Embroidered Applique posting Monday, August 15, 2011.

GO! Be Dazzled - 36 pieces non-rotating

GO! Be Dazzled - 110 pieces non-rotating

GO! Be Dazzled - 110 pieces rotating

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There are plenty of shows coming your way in the fall.  Here is the latest update from Mancuso Show Management.  Don't miss these dates!  For more information, visit www.quiltfest.com.

World Quilt Show - New England - August 18-21, 2011 - Radisson Center of New Hampshire

This shows features the Premier of 2011 World Quilt Competition XV!

Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza XVIII - Greater Philadelphia - September 15-18, 2011 - Great Philadelphia Expo Center

Pacific International Quilt Festival XX - San Francisco Bay Area - October 13-16, 2011 - Santa Clara Convention Center

World Quilt Show - Florida - November 10-12, 2011 - Palm Beach County Convention Center

And for those of you who enter the shows - here are some competition deadlines:

Entries for the 2011 Pacific International Quilt Festival Quilt Competition, "Time" and Wearable Art Competition must be postmarked by Monday, September 1, 2011.

The postmark deadline for entries to World Quilt Show - Florida's newly expanded "Southeastern States Quilt Competition" is Thursday, September 23, 2011.

 

 

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The Alliance for American Quilts held a number of "fun" fundraisers last weekend and one of our lucky TQS Members won a ticket to attend Marianne & Jay on the Runway.   Karen Fitzpatrick (kfstitcher) got to spend the afternoon with Marianne Fons (you know, Fons & Porter) and her daughter Mary of the new show Quilty. Also in attendance, Jay McCarroll, first-season winner of Project Runway who now designs for FreeSpirit and to top it off, the outrageous Mark Lipinski who interviews a very confused Jay McCarroll for the Quilters' S.O.S - Save Our Stories project.

Thanks so much to Karen for sharing this smilebox with us!

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This year's 21st Annual Quilt Show hosted by the Oregon Coastal Quilters Guild was held August 5-6 in Newport, Oregon. The Guild Featured Quilter was Jean Amundson.   The Featured Guest Quilter was a TQS Favorite, Jean Wells, owner of the Stitchin' Post and recent inductee in the Quilter's Hall of Fame in Marion, Indiana.

And this weekend, August 12-15, you can watch Jean in Episode 107: Portraits from Nature for FREE. TQS is opening up this episode up to everyone!  This is the episode where Ricky demonstrates his one-seam flying geese technique (which has been seen on YouTube over 80,000 times). You won't want to miss it!                                                 4057_see_show_1.png

Enjoy this little tidbit from a wonderful quilt show and mark your calendars for next year, August 3rd and 4th. 

Oregon quilters have quite a bit going on in August and September, keep an eye out for the next Weekend Fun where you can learn about Quilt County 2011.

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Click to play this Smilebox slideshow

Join them on the set for Episode 904: The Wonderful World of Embroidered Applique with Sarah Vedeler.  Sarah shows Alex and Ricky how to create outstanding embroidery and applique designs and demonstrates the AccuQuilt Go! Fabric Cutter.  Alex also shows Ricky to how fill a specific area of a quilt with an original quilting design.              4053_join_see_stitched_0.png

 

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The Record-Courier, based in Gardnerville, NV, has announced that the Carson Valley Quilt Guild will have prize money in the amount of $20,000 for their 2012 judged show. The show is scheduled for June 9-10, 2012 at Carson High School.  This highly unusual amount of money is credited to the sponsorship of the Los Angeles firm of First Pacific Advisors LLC, who provides investment management services and has personnel in the Lake Tahoe area.

The competition will be open to quilt artists from the Lake Tahoe area as well as quilt artists from outside that area.

To read the original article, click here.

To learn more about the non-profit CarsonValley Quilt Guild and to read the rules concerning the contest, click here.

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In Lesson 11 of Alex Anderson - Hand Quilting, Alex talks about selecting your backing fabric.  She also gives you a peek at her guest room, designed around a quilt in one of her books.

Click here to see all of Alex's books.

Click here to go to P&B Textiles.

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Alex talks to one of the stars of the Stitched documentary, Hollis Chatelain.